National Center for Healthy Housing

NCHH has created a course for Community Health Workers (CHWs) to teach them how to provide healthy homes information to members of their communities. The Healthy Homes for Community Health Workers course is targeted to individuals who work as health advocates in their communities.

This course trains CHWs to provide one-on-one and large group education on healthy homes, provide general advice about specific healthy homes problems, and be able to recommend healthy homes approaches to be taken by families, landlords and other community members.

The course was offered in a pilot format in the fall of 2008 and early 2009. As of April 9, 2009, it is being offered as a finalized course. Because this course is still new, there will be continue to be some ongoing revisions to the materials.

Who Should Attend: community health workers, health educators, public health nurses, cooperative extension agents

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Course Materials

The course is approved for 6 nursing contact hours through the Ohio Nurses Assocation, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Click here to see a list of upcoming sessions. Please contact Laura Titus at ltitus@nchh.org with any questions.